The Digest. 06.11.08.

A light installation in Dundas Square in Toronto, for the Luminato Festival. (Photo by wvs.)

• C-Mon is in a Grey Lady kinda way!! I got myself a prime, boozy assignment, writing about artist-designed wine labels for the nytimes.com blog The Moment. Sadly, they made me use my real name for the byline, which, as far as I’m concerned, doesn’t have the same musicality as C-Monster.
• “Stop Covering Art Bitch!”
• A show devoted to “degenerate” art in Rostock, Germany.
• New book on Dalí reports that the artist allowed forgeries to finance his lifestyle and that, get this, his mustache was fake.
• The Ferus Gallery: the L.A. art outpost that launched the “Cool School.”
• Basel Round-Up: Brad Pitt bought some stuff, Ellsworth Kelly hung out and the Russians helped everyone pay the bills. More here.
• Record sale of Latin American art—including several important paintings by Rufino Tamayo—at Sotheby’s.
• Art to Go ponders what would drive a guard to key a work by Vija Celmins at Carnegie.
• A speculative story about who might be on the short list for the position of director at the Met.
• A salute to the Peabody Museum’s dinosaur mural, Age of Reptiles.
• Wonderful animated video about a tango dancer who can no longer dance. The music on this is just sensational. (Via NotCot.)
• The Day in Archeological “Discoveries”: Jordan, Egypt, Machu Picchu edition.
• Looted artifacts returned to Iraq. (Via A.J.)
• Architectural graffiti by Truth in Poland.
• Corporate vandals go scott free in NYC. Literally. (Via World’s Best.)
• Toyo’s design for the Berkeley Art Museum. Images here.
• The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock.
• Because the world really needs more retail: Historic Moderne theatre designed by William Pereira in 1938 is under threat from development.
• Effin’ rad Spike Jonze video for Pharcyde.
• Your moment of Pablo Picasso Was Never Called An Asshole.